P.V. Dixit, C.J.

This order will also govern Second Appeals Nos. 348 of 1957, 70, 78, 234, 299, 415, 432, 454, 465 and 522all of 1958, and 75, 107, 120 all of 1959, Misc. (S) Appeal No. 122 of 1959, and Second Appeals Nos. 239 and 253 of 1959. All these appeals have come before us by way of cases referred by our learned brothers sitting singly and raise a question of the construction to be placed on Sections 16 and 17 of the Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1955, hereinafter referred to as the Act, and Section 6 of the Madhya Pradesh Extension of Laws Act, 1958.

All these appeals, with the exception of Miscellaneous (Second) Appeal No. 122 of 1959, arise out of suits for eviction instituted in the Mahakoshal, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal regions of the State of Madhya Pradesh before the coming into force of the M. P. Accommodation Control Act, 1955, on the 1st January 1959. The excepted appeal arises out of execution proceedings of a decree for ejectment passed on 23rd July 1957 by the Subordinate Judge, Bhopal, against a tenant. Some of the Appellants before us are landlords and the others are tenants. Immediately before 1st January 1959, different Acts regulating rent a